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Liberal Democracy and Governance in Nigeria Since 1999: Beyond Consolidation and Reform

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 'Iroko', Billy Dudley, Capitalism, Elections, Governance, Individual interests, INEC, IRev, NPSA, Party system, Political Science, Rule of lawNo CommentsViews:
Liberal Democracy and Governance in Nigeria Since 1999: Beyond Consolidation and Reform

First published on January 29th, 2026, this text is being republished solely to replace the cover picture of late Prof Billy Dudley with a different one as the previous one is said not to be... Read more

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Lenin Would Have Become a Maoist – Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff

Posted By: adminon: July 08, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Capitalism, Castro, Cultural Revolution, Growth, Lenin, Mao, Marx, Monopoly capitalism, SocialismNo CommentsViews:
Lenin Would Have Become a Maoist - Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff

This is not a recent interview but Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff are two big names in political economy that many might not care about the time they said whatever they said. Not if they are... Read more

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Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Capitalism, Decolonising, Global South, Kwame Nkrumah, Marxism, neocolonialism, Noam Chomsky, Rising China, Russia, Third World Project, US supremacy, Working classNo CommentsViews:
Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

BY JOSÉ ERNESTO NOVAEZ Marxist researcher and the intellectual plenipotentiary, Vijay Prashad, can always be trusted to smartly stand with orthodoxy but creatively advocate tactics of strugg... Read more

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From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Apartheid, British Empire, Capitalism, Chatham House, Colonialism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Imperialism, Lancaster House, Nazism, Neo-colonialism, Slavery, ‘Wind of change’No CommentsViews:
From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Nigerian nationalism is on warpath against those seeking to rule the country trooping to a UK platform with ties to the Empire imagination. The argument against such trend can be powerful wh... Read more

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In Nigeria, We Must Urgently Re-examine Our Politics – Eng Muhammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Capitalism, ICT culture, Latin America, Satan, Severe poverty, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:
In Nigeria, We Must Urgently Re-examine Our Politics – Eng Muhammed Abba-Gana

Engineer Muhammed Abba-Gana, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and a member of the Board of Trustees, (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) is asserting the case for... Read more

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Updated: ‘A Vote for Dame Pauline Tallen is a Vote for Experience, Exposure and Performance’

Posted By: adminon: May 09, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Capitalism, Family, Plateau State, Senate, Sociology, UNIJOS, WomenNo CommentsViews:
Updated: 'A Vote for Dame Pauline Tallen is a Vote for Experience, Exposure and Performance'

There was no knowing that writing a story on Dame Pauline Tallen is equal to touching fire.  Not only is every grammatical error corrected, factual errors are also protested. Look at this on... Read more

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Who is Going to Stop Elon Musk?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Bullionnaire, Capitalism, Mars, TeslaNo CommentsViews:
Who is Going to Stop Elon Musk?

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO who appears determined to move a large percentage of human beings to Mars is also determined to buy Twitter and the world seems alarmed about that. The New York based Th... Read more

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Hamza Al-Mustapha, Ameh Ebute Sets Tongues Wagging on Insecurity in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Capitalism, Elite consensus, Security StudiesNo CommentsViews:
Hamza Al-Mustapha, Ameh Ebute Sets Tongues Wagging on Insecurity in Nigeria

The claim about rich and powerful Nigerians being behind the generalized insecurity in the country has echoed again, setting tongues wagging. The first in recent times came from Ameh Ebute,... Read more

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Yusuf Bangura Releases a Massive Review Piece in Celebration of Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2019In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Capitalism, Claude Ake, FASS, Marxism, UDTNo CommentsViews:
Yusuf Bangura Releases a Massive Review Piece in Celebration of Prof Bjorn Beckman

It would not be a terrible thing to say that no such text has come out in recent times. At 10, 143 words in length, it is a massive narrative which would look too long for a popular site suc... Read more

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Amilcar Cabral Ideological School Insists on Socialism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ACIS-M, Africa, Capitalism, Che Guevara, Imperialism1 CommentViews:
Amilcar Cabral Ideological School Insists on Socialism in Nigeria

It is not controversial to say that, like Nigeria itself, the Socialist community in the country is limping too, especially in theoretical assuredness and in innovative practices. But it sti... Read more

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